Lawsuit seeks damages under organized crime laws Oil firm BP “manipulated” the Bush administration into softening regulation of oil drilling, leading to the environmental disaster unfolding in the Gulf of Mexico, a lawsuit filed in a...

President Barack Obama says that the Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster “echoes 9/11” in its power to change the course of American history. Ã¢â‚¬Å“In the same way that our view of our vulnerabilities and our foreign policy was shaped...

CNN foreign affairs analyst Fareed Zakaria has made an unusual foray into commentary, criticizing the US press for its focus on questioning President Obama’s emotional reaction to the spill. It was evidently the president’s comment...

Republicans are “shamelessly” defending and “trying to reward” the petroleum industry even with “thousands of barrels of oil still gushing into the Gulf,” a spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid...

WASHINGTON (AFP) Ã¢â‚¬â€œ The fragile economy and environment of the southern US coast will take years to recover from the worst oil spill in US history, President Barack Obama and his top disaster official warned Monday. As BP increased the...

Louisiana state bird among those affected BP said on Monday it has spent at least 1.25 billion dollars on the Gulf of Mexico oil spill as the energy giant launched an effort to further contain the environmental calamity. BP said the cap fitted...

Adm. Thad Allen, the former Coast Guard head who has been appointed the “incident commander” for the oil spill, says he has put out an order to allow the media “uninhibited access” to oil spill sites. Adm. Allen also told...

BP reported some oil was flowing up a pipe Friday from a cap it wrestled onto its broken Gulf of Mexico well but crude still spewed and it was unclear how much could be captured in the latest bid to tame the nation’s worst oil spill....

Physics professor Michio Kaku has some bad news: oil could gush from the leaking BP deepwater well for years. After six methods for stopping the leak failed, BP is now trying a seventh method: “cut and cap.” Underwater robots are...

Comparing the Gulf oil spill to Hurricane Katrina doesn’t explain the amount of damage being done to Barack Obama’s presidency if you believe a new talking point that is circulating in the media. President Bush was already in his...

General manager says relief well expected to be completed in August is ‘end point’ for efforts to stop spill Oil giant BP has said it is responsible for the Gulf oil spill, but now the company seems to be reserving the right to blame...

The agency in charge of overseeing the United States’ oil reserves was plagued with gross mismanagement that in at least one case allowed the companies being inspected to fill in their own audit reports, an Inspector General’s report...

Oil giant BP faced mounting pressure Monday to control a massive oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico after the US government threatened to take over the response to the month-old disaster. “If we find that they’re not doing what...